FIGHTING AGAINST YOURSELF!
A STRANGE CONTEST.
If you vote for the Compulsory Saturday Half-holiday you are fighting against your own interests! What would you gain by the change ? Nothing! How would you benefit? Not at all! You will lose all along the line. You will deprive yourself of the privilege of shopping at leisure on Saturday afternoon and evenings. You will banish all the pleasures of the Saturday night promenade in the brilliantlylighted, cheery streets. You will let slip a boon which lias been yours for many years. You will help to harass the workers' wives by taking away their favourite shopping opportunity—an act which is certainly anything b-ut friendly. You will be lending a hand in driving away business from the small retailers. You will be using your influence to create conditions which will bring about the loss of the situations to not a few shop assistants. IS ALL THIS IN YOUR INTERESTS ? Can you hope to gain anything by it? ASSUREDLY NOT! Close your ears to the plausible agitator with his woeful tale of "robbing the toilers." As a "toiler" yourself in your own way of life, consider your personal convenience and welfare, and vote straight and solidly AGAINST the proposed "compulsory'' Saturday Halfholiday. Then'you'll be doing the best not only for yourself but for the citizens of Dunedin as a whole.—Advt.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16354, 10 April 1915, Page 7
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